Hayes, Anna, Ping, Jonathan, and McCormick, Brett (2025) Towards a Chinese theory of international relations evidenced in practice and policy. In: Ping, Jonathan, Hayes, Anna, and McCormick, Brett, (eds.) Chinese International Relations Theory: As Emerging from Practice and Policy. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 1-17.

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Abstract

The discipline of international relations (IR) grew out of efforts to prevent global conflict and better understand the causes of conflict and war. Critically, in the aftermath of the First World War, it sought to improve diplomacy and increase cooperation among states. Thus, IR is rooted within what might be framed as a Western tradition based on European patterns of state-based interactions globally. As a result, Agnew (2022, p. 25) argues that its foundational assumptions are ‘presumed to be universal’ despite them being grounded upon a ‘limited geographical experience’, and this has resulted in renewed efforts by Chinese IR theorists to reshape the scholarly literature so that it includes the Chinese experience. Such an effort also reflects China’s growing global power, which provides a strong rationale among Chinese academia, government and policy circles that the Chinese experience and Chinese model of development should be included within the discipline. As a result, such considerations frequently present ideas around how the Chinese outlook on the pattern of international relations is radically different from the Western tradition, historically and in the present era, and is typically framed around highlighting differences rather than seeking out the commonalities. Frequently, this has led to Chinese IR theory (CIRT) being Sinocentric in its nature, while at the same time, Chinese scholars have critiqued Western IR theory (WIRT) as Eurocentric or American-led.

Item ID:	85585
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	9780429197697
Copyright Information:	© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Jonathan Ping, Anna Hayes and Brett McCormick; individual chapters, the contributors.
Date Deposited:	22 May 2025 00:56
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